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| MINORREVISION v1.1 |
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| Quoting and referring to modified documents |
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| By Matthieu Guillaumin |
| guillaumin@vision.ee.ethz.ch |
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Description and usage
=====================
minorrevision is intended for researchers who publish articles in peer-reviewed
journals. In the final stages of the review process, the authors typically have
to provide an additional document (such as a letter to the editors) where they
want to provide a list of modifications that they made to the manuscript. It
is convenient for the editors to have line numbers and quotations from the
manuscript in this letter. This package helps automatizing this task for the
authors.
This is a two-step process.
Step 1) In the manuscript (say "manuscript.tex"), you need to declare the use
of the package, by putting the following line in the preamble of your LaTeX
source:
\usepackage{minorrevision}
You should also add line numbers to your manuscript, also in the preamble:
\linenumbers
Then, in the body of you manuscript, when you make a minor modification, you
need to use the \revision macro. For instance, if the following sentence was in
your manuscript:
In this paper, we show that $1+1=2$.
And, following reviews, you want to modify it to:
In this paper, we hypothetize that $1+1=2$.
Then, instead of replacing the text directly, you should use
\revision{label}{new text}{old text}, like this:
In this paper, we \revision{mymod}{hypothetize}{show} that $1+1=2$.
Here, we have used the label "mymod" for later reference. When compiling
manuscript.tex with LaTeX, only the new version of the text will appear.
For text that is simply removed, you can use: \revisionrm{label}{text}
For text that is simply added: \revisionadd{label}{text}
A call to \revision{label}{text1}{text2} is similar to
\revisionrm{label}{text2}\revisionadd{label}{text1} but the latter wouldn't
work because the label would be defined twice.
Step 2) In the document where you want make reference to the manuscript, also
add the minorrevision package, and specify that manuscript.tex is the
reference:
\usepackage{minorrevision}
\mrvdocument{manuscript}
Note how ".tex" should *not* be included in the \mrvdocument macro. As of
v1.1, you can have multiple references:
\mrvdocument{manuscript}
\mrvdocument{manuscript2}
...
You can now refer to the line numbers of modifications in the reference
documents via their label names, by using \mrvref{reference}{label},
\mrvold{reference}{label} and \mrvnew{reference}{label}. "reference" should
correspond to the argument of \mrvreference.
On line~\mrvref{manuscript}{mymod}, we have replaced
``\mrvold{manuscript}{mymod}'' with ``\mrvnew{manuscript}{mymod}''.
It's up to you to format that as you prefer. The quote environment is probably
better for larger modifications.
For the latest declared reference document, the simpler \revref{label},
\revold{label} and \revnew{label} are available.
On line~\revref{mymod}, we have replaced ``\revold{mymod}'' with
``\revnew{mymod}''.
This is particularly useful when there is no ambiguity, ie there is only one
reference document.
Implementation details
======================
This package automatically adds the following packages:
- xkeyval: for passing options to the packages below
- lineno: to get line numbers of labels
- xr: to perform cross-reference between documents
When using the minorrevision package, a new auxiliary file is created, with
extention ``.mrv''. In the case of manuscript.tex, the file will be
manuscript.mrv. The \revision macro not only declares the label for lineno and
prints the new text to the document, but also writes two macro definitions in
manuscript.mrv with both the new and old text contents. The macro name depends
on the name of the reference (here, ``manuscript''), and the label name (here,
``mymod'').
When making the call to \mrvdocument, those macro definitions are read (simply
by inputting the file), and calls to \revref{mymod}, \revold{mymod} and
\revnew{mymod} become available.
See minorrevision.sty for the actual implementation with comments.
File manifest
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README This file
minorrevision.sty The style file
Bug report and questions
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Please use the official bitbucket repository for bug reports, patch proposal
and question:
https://bitbucket.org/mguillau/latex-minorrevision
Copyright and License
=====================
Copyright 2013 Matthieu Guillaumin
This work may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of
the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c of this license
or (at your option) any later version. The latest version of this
license is in
http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
and version 1.3c or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version
2008/05/04 or later.